Very little information available at the moment apart from telling you that the French media is reporting the Patrice Chéreau, director of perhaps one of the most famous Ring cycles of modern times, died from lung cancer, today, aged 68.
R. Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, Salzburger Festspiele, 02.08.2026
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Susan Sontag has famously called R. Strauss’s operas “camp”, and I wonder
if Ariadne auf Naxos’s neo-rococo convoluted structure, pseudoprofound
libretto a...
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